Trials and Tribulations of the Modern-Day Mind

in life we are always after something. whether it be a grade, a gf/bf, a car, or something as simple as just being noticed, it always seem out of reach. it may not even be very far out of reach but just enough to drive you mad. it becomes not just something we want, but a simple trick of the brain and you feel like you need it, you can't live without it, and you'd do almost anything for it.

i've come to the conclusion that either the human mind is too wise and mysterious for us to comprehend, or we spend so much time thinking and pretending to be wise that we actually complicate the matter itself.

with all of the confusion, doubt, aniexty, stress, whatever it may be for you, it all seems worth it ...if we get what we want in the end.  i don't know how or why, but even if we don't get what we want we somehow convince ourselves that it was a "learning experience" or "i'm better off without it." it's pure bullshit. we decide we want one thing and then if, by change, we dont get it, we change our minds, all of a sudden see the error of our ways, and act as if we were Confucius and say we've learned from it.  i'm sorry but not getting a car for you birthday is not a lesson learned well, but more likely an overly privileged child who thinks they deserve everything they "need."

wherever our wise-yet-golly, rational-yet-irrational, intelligent-yet-naive minds take us, we are always following something.  a never ending chase, trying to catch something that we think will make us feel better; that WANT that is now a NEED.

pusshej,
jules